Tracy and Melissa Bethel and Larry and Charlotte Harley, all of Lawrenceburg, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their children, Jessica Leigh Bethel and Benjamin Alexander Harley.

The bride-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Anderson County High School and will graduate from the University of Kentucky this year with a Bachelor of Science degree in career and technical education with an emphasis in family and consumer sciences.

Steven and Vicki Walker of Lawrenceburg and Henry and Brenda Cook of Gordon announced the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their children, Alisha Lane Walker and Jeremy Brandon Cook.

The bride-to-be is a granddaughter of Linda Baxter of Lawrenceburg and Bill and Pat Hall of Lexington.

She is a 2006 graduate of Anderson County High School and a 2009 graduate of Midway College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She is currently attending Georgetown College to pursue a master’s degree in special education.

Betsy Horton was working just a couple doors away when an opportunity knocked that she just couldn’t ignore.

Horton, the owner and baker of Heaven’s to Betsy, said she was working at the nearby Café on Main when the opportunity came up to purchase bakery cases and equipment from a grocery store going out of business.

Horton had a longstanding dream, she said, of opening a bakery in the downtown area.

She had been told before by her peers to open her own bakery, and unexpectedly, she said, she was given the chance to do something special.

Students at Anderson County Middle School have probably seen The Amazing Race, Survivor or other reality shows.

But last Friday, they experienced The Reality Store.

Unlike television, the program administered by the Cooperative Extension Service was in fact, reality.

Working on different scenarios that put them in the real world, eighth-graders were forced to deal with the ups-and-downs of real life. Some had high-paying jobs. Others barely got by. Some joined the National Guard and a few even went AWOL.

During the week of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday, Jim Sayre didn’t know he would have to be in 200 places at once.

Well, maybe not 200, but Lawrenceburg’s own Abe look-alike is having a very busy bicentennial.

By the end of this week, Sayre will have visited Frankfort, Nicholasville, Paint Lick, Mt. Vernon, Waynesburg, Elizabethtown, Hodgenville, Georgetown, Somerset and Anderson County’s own public library to portray the nation’s 16th president.

And next week is shaping up to be just as busy, but Sayre couldn’t be happier.

Representatives from Kentucky Educational Television joined state Rep. Kent Stevens, Superintendent Kim Shaw and other Anderson County educators Thursday to witness technology in use in the classrooms at Robert B. Turner Elementary.

For more on this story, including examples of technology used by students, see this week's Anderson News, available on newsstands across the county.

Thoroughbred Theatre in Midway will host Song of the Bluegrass, a women's chorus, for a presentation of popular songs on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 22 at 2:30 p.m.

The show, "Memories from Main to Broadway," will feature "I Only Have Eyes for You," "The Rose," "Tuxedo Junction," and show tunes from "Cats," "The Sound of Music," "Music Man," "West Side Story," "Grease" and others.

The Brownies of Girl Scout Troop 753 spent a recent Saturday morning completing a community service project at the Anderson County Community Park. The girls and some family members picked up trash in the park.

“We have an excellent grounds staff at the park because it really was pretty clean,” said troop leader Jaynel Roberts. “Maybe between the three bags we had we would have filled one if we combined them.”

For more on this story, including a photo of the troop, see this week's Anderson News, available on newsstands across the county.

This Sunday — the second Sunday of the month — Anderson County citizens are invited downtown to get active.

For the first time, Anderson County is participating in “Second Sunday,” which is a “statewide event that encourages all forms of physical activity within the local community and is designed to get Kentuckians moving,” according to the event website, www.2ndsundayky.com.

For more on this story, see this week's Anderson News, available on newsstands across the county.